# @natgeo on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Cc6vcxZDFL2
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11680635-natgeo-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2022-04-29T02:15:05.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** National Geographic (@NatGeo) — https://gondola.cc/NatGeo

## Caption

Photos by carltonward | Cedar Key is an outpost along Florida's Gulf Coast, 100 miles north of Tampa. The island is surrounded by the mouths of rivers, including the Withlacoochee, Waccasassa, and Suwannee, the latter originating 200 miles (300 km) away in Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp. The abundant supply of clean freshwater to this estuary helps make it one of the best places in America for clam and oyster aquaculture. 
 
The sister-and-brother team of Gretchen and Ian Stone are fifth-generation farmers from Kansas who moved to Cedar Key to grow clams instead of corn. While crop farming had largely exhausted the water and soil where they grew up, clam farming cleans the water and improves the health of estuaries. The growing shellfish aquaculture industry also makes a strong economic case for protecting the upstream rivers in the area known as the Florida Wildlife Corridor from development. 
 
Meet Gretchen and Ian in the National Geographic Society film "Saving the Florida Wildlife Corridor," available on Nat Geo's YouTube channel. To learn more, follow carltonward and pathofthepanther, a project supported by the National Geographic Society, which is working to inspire the protection of the Florida Wildlife Corridor. insideNatGeo fl_wildcorridor #FloridaWildlifeCorridor #KeepFLWild

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